I use a heavily customized i3 alongside a barebones MATE on Debian.
Run deploy-dotfiles in .local/bin.
I use the Caps Lock key mapped to nothing. The first command in this code
block does this and sets the keyboard layout to us with the altgr-intl
variant. The second command makes it permanent.
setxkbmap -layout us -variant altgr-intl -option caps:none
sudo localectl --no-convert set-x11-keymap us "" altgr-intl caps:none
Base MATE installation, tools needed for scripts, and other nice programs.
Make sure marco, MATE's default window manager, is not installed so it
doesn't conflict with i3.
adwaita-qt alarm-clock-applet atril blueman caja caja-image-converter
caja-open-terminal caja-sendto caja-xattr-tags dconf-cli dmz-cursor-theme dunst
engrampa eom firefox-esr firewall-config flameshot fonts-dejavu
fonts-liberation fonts-noto gnome-keyring gucharmap i3-wm jq keepassxc
libnotify-bin lightdm mate-applets mate-control-center mate-icon-theme
mate-media mate-power-manager mate-screensaver mate-session-manager
mate-settings-daemon mate-terminal mozo mpv mpv-mpris network-manager-gnome
pavucontrol picom pipewire-audio pipewire-jack playerctl python3-dbus
python3-gbulb python3-i3ipc python3-xlib qalculate-gtk redshift-gtk rofi rsync
suckless-tools unclutter-xfixes vim-gtk3 wmctrl xcape xclip xdotool
Set START_UNCLUTTER to false in /etc/default/unclutter
Files in the .local directory except for dconf are licensed under the GNU
GPL v3 license. See LICENSE.md.